SUSPECT NAMED IN SHOOTING OF 2 OFFICERS.Byline: TOMIO Tomio is a male Japanese given name. Possible Writings
LONG BEACH -- Police sought the public's help Saturday as they searched for a ``known thug'' who shot two police officers during a traffic stop Friday on a bustling bus·tle 1 intr. & tr.v. bus·tled, bus·tling, bus·tles To move or cause to move energetically and busily. n. Excited and often noisy activity; a stir. downtown street. Police Chief Anthony Batts identified the suspect as Oscar Manuel Gallegos, a 36- or 37-year-old Long Beach resident with a lengthy criminal record that includes arrests for drugs, terrorist threats and assault. Batts urged members of Gallegos' family, some of whom live in Long Beach, to cooperate with police, and had another message for the suspect at a press conference late Saturday. ``Turn yourself in because we are coming from you,'' Batts said. ``You cannot run long enough or far enough until we catch you.'' Police issued a warrant for Gallegos' arrest on charges of attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. of a police officer. They urged to the public to help but warned that Gallegos should be considered ``armed and extremely dangerous Exteremely Dangerous is a 1999 four part series for ITV starring Sean Bean as an ex-MI5 undercover agent convicted of the brutal murder of his wife and child who goes on the run to try and clear his name. He sets out to follow up a strange clue sent to him in prison. .'' Batts described Gallegos as a ``known thug'' and said his first arrest was in 1990 in Long Beach on a firearms This is an extensive list of small arms — pistol, machine gun, grenade launcher, anti-tank rifle — that includes variants. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
``He may have been deported several times,'' Batts said. The officers were identified Saturday as Roy Wade Jr., 39, who graduated from the Police Academy three weeks ago, and Abe Yap, 37, a nine-year veteran of the force, who was training Wade, police said. The two were shot through the front windshield of their patrol car during a traffic stop at Long Beach Boulevard The following roads are named Beach Boulevard:
Wade sustained four gunshot wounds to his upper chest and neck area above his bullet-proof vest, Batts said. Yap was shot once in the cheek area. ``They were ambushed by a cowardly suspect,'' Batts said. Both are in critical condition at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, but doing better than doctors expected, Batts said. Yap was able to write notes, he said. Although police located the suspect's vehicle late Friday in the 200 block of Elm Avenue, Gallegos was not found during a search of an adjacent apartment complex. Police maintained a command post near the site throughout most of the day Saturday. The shooting erupted on a busy Friday three days before Christmas at 1:19 p.m., as residents were shopping at a nearby Wal-Mart and waiting for the Metro Blue Line at a platform on Long Beach Boulevard at Sixth Street. Wade and Yap had pulled over a white 1998 Nissan Pathfinder For the model marketed as Nissan Terrano II in Europe, see . The Nissan Pathfinder and Terrano were originally compact SUVs and they are now mid-size SUVs. in the left-hand lane at the intersection intersection /in·ter·sec·tion/ (-sek´shun) a site at which one structure crosses another. intersection a site at which one structure crosses another. , Batts said. |
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